Man Arrested Over Cigarette Tax Stamps

Agents with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Criminal Investigation Division arrested a Fort Worth man in Sulphur Springs on a third-degree felony warrant for Possession of Tobacco with Tax Due. They are accusing 61-year-old James Ali Konieber of possessing tobacco products without a tax stamp on packaging. His arrest record shows him to be self-employed at Joe’s Exxon on Broadway in Sulphur Springs.